On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Linda W <perl-didd...@tlinx.org> wrote: > Steffen Mueller wrote: > >> On 11/21/2011 09:58 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: >>> >>> Maybe instead of just this Covenant, we have a number of Ownership / >>> Maintenance statements, one of which is the one I proposed, but >>> another of which would something along the lines of: > > ==== > If you put something on CPAN and don't answer email or fix things for 3 > months it's too long to stay listed as a "maintained module" > > > CPAN is a cesspool of garbage right now and now its HARD to find > the jewels that ARE there, because of all the junk and false modules one > has to deal with that are seemingly more prevalent. > > Don't have to touch their code,... but if we want CPAN to be able to > be relied upon.. it's can't have unaddressed bugs for months (let alone a > year or more)... > > Otherwise, it's a museum for old code that used to work... not real > useful as it was originally intended. > > > The author should also be "open" to patches, if they don't want to give > it up but don't have time or resources (no, I don't have a VAX-native > version of Perl to duplicate your problem, let alone HW to run it on; > what time zone did you say you were in?). > > Seems like CPAN is more about ego's the way this is being handled... >
Hi Linda, I think there is a lot of truth in what you are writing but I also understand people get nervous when they are told to get serious. They want to keep the right to "not give a shit" and I can understand that. They (or may I say, 'we') have other things in our life and after uploading the module they are usually more important than that module. The main problem, as I see, is that contribution to a module or co-maintainer ship feels a lot less interesting, and a lot less valuable than having your name on you own module. (yeah, lots of ego-trip in there). I think if we could encourage more people to contribute to existing modules and if we could encourage module authors to let more people contribute/co-main etc. their modules, a large part of the problems (lack of maintenance, too many similar solutions to the same problem) we encounter would go away. I am not sure we can do that or how to do achieve that. Gabor
